Loyola video series on assessment and community impact

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I am pleased to share with you a video series organized this fall by Loyola's Center for Community Service and Justice on Telling the Story of Community Engagement: Assessment for Impact. In two parts, we look at how assessment can be used to show how we are engaged with the community, and also help both the university and our partner organizations tell the story of our collective impact. I am sharing with this group because you may find them useful points of comparison for your own work and your institutional partnerships.
  
Part I: Serve, Reflect, Repeat: Findings from a Decade of Service-Learning Data, features Paola Pascual-Ferrá, Assistant Professor of Communication at Loyola, and Kate Figiel-Miller, Assistant Director of Service-Learning in the Center for Community Service and Justice, showing how analysis of CCSJ's end-of-semester service-learning surveys can be used to show the impact of reflection-- in particular, multiple forms of reflection in the same course. 

Part II: Assessing Community Impact, has been broken into two parts for your viewing convenience. Part 1, Moving the Line on Poverty with Loyola University, features Rachael Neill and D'Anne Avotins of GEDCO/CARES in Baltimore, who explain the impact that their ongoing partnership with Loyola has for their organization. Part 2, Assessment for Impact, features the director of CCSJ, Erin O'Keefe, leading Loyola faculty in a discussion of the video from Part 1, leading into a broader discussion of how faculty create and assess impact in their own work as well as for partner organizations and the community at large. 

I welcome your comments or questions, either sent to the list or emailed to me privately. 

Happy happy holidays to all!
Jean

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Jean Lee Cole

Loyola University Maryland

Professor of English • Faculty Director of Community-Engaged Learning and Scholarship • Editor, American Periodicals • loyola.academia.edu/JeanLeeCole

Engage for Change Conference, Proposal Deadline March 1st

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Are we as campuses engaging in authentic partnership with our community partners? How can we deepen our roles in the community while enhancing the education of our students and expanding our scholarship? 

Engage for Change 

May 23rd, 2018
Siena College, Albany NY

Abstracts due March 1st

Please join us on May 23rd for the 4th annual Engage for Change! We are especially interested in workshops, presentations and "wicked Problems" discussions that highlight best practices in authentic partnership through internships, research, classes, and collaborative projects. Workshops from faculty, community members, students, and campus administrators are all welcome and encouraged.

Best,

Ruth

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Ruth Kassel, Ph.D.

Assistant Director for Academic Community Engagement

Community Engaged Teaching and Learning

Phone 518-782-6951

email: rkassel@siena.edu

Office Hours: T/Th 1:30-3:00 (sign up here)

Siena College is a learning community advancing the ideals of a liberal arts education, rooted in its identity as a Franciscan and Catholic institution.

2018 Active Citizens Conference Priority Proposal Deadline Friday

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Good Afternoon, colleagues, 

I wanted to remind you that the priority proposal deadline for the 2018 Active Citizens Conference is this Friday. The final proposal deadline is January 24, and registration is open through February 8. 

The William & Mary 

Active Citizens Conference

Educating, Uniting, and Inspiring Active Citizens

February 17, 2018 Williamsburg, VA

Gathering 175+ undergraduates, The Active Citizens Conference is an engaging space to share experience and expertise in community. This year we’re convening around the theme The Skills of Freedom.

As active citizens on campuses across the country, how are our efforts developing the skills of freedom in ourselves and our communities? At this year’s conference we will explore what the skills of freedom are, how we practice them, and what freedom means in communities large and small.

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Submit a workshop proposal by January 24. Priority consideration through December 8. Conference workshops are 50 minutes long, and proposals from faculty, staff, students, and community members are welcome. 

​Register for the conference by February 8.  Registration covers this one-day conference including breakfast and lunch. Student registration is only $60 and faculty/staff registration is $75.

For more information visit the conference website. 

Best,

Elizabeth Miller 

Acting Director 

Office of Community Engagement 

The College of William & Mary 

Utah Campus Compact Community Engagement Institute - Registration Now Open

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_{2018 Utah Campus Compact
Community Engagement Institute}

Utah Campus Compact is pleased to host our 2018 Biennial Community Engagement Institute with both an institutional and faculty track.  Distinguished subject matter experts from Indiana University Purdue University – Indianapolis Dr. Kristin Norris and Anne Weiss will be leading the institute.  The institute will take place Friday, February 9 (8:30 am - 5 pm) & Saturday, February 10 (8:30 am - 12 pm)

Speaker/Facilitators

 
​Dr. Kristin Norris, is the Director of Assessment for the Office of Community Engagement at IUPUI. Kristin works with stakeholders (internal and external) to track community-engaged activities in order to conduct assessment, evaluation, and research that demonstrates  how IUPUI’s community engaged activities, programs, pedagogies, and/or practices support the institutional mission, demonstrate progress, and inform decision making. Kristin is passionate about student civic outcomes and the public purpose of higher education in addressing community issues.

Anne Weiss, Anne began working with Campus Compact of Indiana in 2015.  Anne has over seven years of experience in leading collaborative assessment, evaluation, and inquiry projects focused on resolving complex problems within higher education institutions- especially as it relates to civic or community engagement.  In the role of Director of Assessment with Indiana Campus Compact, Anne is expanding the capacity of our organization and our partner institutions across the areas of assessment, evaluation, tracking or monitoring, and strategic planning. In this capacity Anne develops data collection instruments, conducts literature reviews, performs data collection, analysis and interpretation, plus advises our organization and partner campuses on how to use findings from these activities for program and organizational improvement. 

Register Here

Registration deadline is Wednesday, January 10 at Noon.

Institutional Track

Utah Campus Compact Member Institutions
$700 for team of up to 5
$150 for each additional team member over 5

National and other State Campus Compact Member Institutions
$1,000 for a team of up to 5
$225 for each additional team member

Non-Campus Compact Institutions
$1,750 for a team of up to 5

Faculty Track

Utah Campus Compact Member Faculty
$150 per faculty member

National and other State Campus Compact Member Faculty
$225 per faculty member

Non-Campus Compact Member Faculty
$350 per faculty member

http://utahcompact.org/

Call for Proposals: 2018 Cohen Peace Conference

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The 3^rd Benjamin V. Cohen Peace Conference

Peacemakers: People, Politics, & Possibilities

Ball State University

Muncie, Indiana

April 6 and 7, 2018

www.bsu.edu/cohenpeaceconference

Deadline for submitting proposals: December 15, 2017

The Ball State University Center for Peace and Conflict Studies along with the City of Muncie are very pleased to announce a Call for Proposals to present at the 3^rd Benjamin V. Cohen Peace Conference.

Scholars, students, practitioners, and activists from all disciplines as well as laypersons are invited to submit proposals to present symposia, discussions, papers, and posters on the theme Peacemakers: People, Politics, & Possibilities. Proposals will be blind reviewed. We welcome submissions that focus on strategies, research, and recommendations related to peacemaking and peacebuilding, and those that explore the bridge between activism and research.

Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):

•    Community peacemaking/peacebuilding theory and praxis

•    Community violence causes, analysis, alternatives, solutions

•    School violence causes, analysis, alternatives, solutions

•    Structural violence relative to race, gender, sexuality, class, religion

•    Justice and reconciliation

•    Race relations

•    Mediation

•    Domestic violence

•    Volunteerism

•    Restorative justice

•    Poverty

•    Religious intolerance and/or conflict

•    Community corrections

•    Community organizing

•    Legislative access

•    Internet and social media for peacemaking/peacebuilding

•    Post-conflict reconstruction

•    National/international law and local politics

•    International peacemaking and peacebuilding/peacemaking and peacebuilding across borders

•    Ethnic conflict

•    Meditation and mindfulness

•    Sports for development and peace

•    Suicide prevention

•    Human rights

•    Sexual harassment

•    Economic inequity or equality

•    Health disparities

•    Environmental issues

•    Homelessness

A $100 award will be given to the best student poster!

To submit proposals, register (early registration ends March 19, 2018) and to learn more about this conference, visit http://www.bsu.edu/cohenpeaceconference. Questions about the conference can be directed to the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies (765-285-1622; peacecenter@bsu.edu ; www.bsu.edu/peacecenter).

Benjamin V. Cohen was born in Muncie, Indiana. He became a major legal architect of much of the New Deal legislation including the Securities Act of 1933 and the plan for Lend-Lease and economic stability during World War II. A shy man, Mr. Cohen worked behind the scenes where his brilliance as a legal draftsman was widely recognized. Following World War II, Mr. Cohen turned his talents to the problems of world peace and became one of the architects of the United Nations, serving on the U.S. delegation to the U.N. and on the United Nations Disarmament Commission. His abiding interest in world peace and his outstanding legal ability influenced American Presidents and world leaders until his death on August 15, 1983. The Ball State University Center for Peace and Conflict Studies manages the Benjamin V. Cohen Peace Fellowship and Travel Award Program.